White Lily Unbleached Self Rising Flour, 5-lb bag

Perfect Biscuits every time. I really like this product

Good flour

I buy this just to make biscuits. its a specific kind of flour milled from a specific kind of soft wheat that makes exceptionally soft and fluffy biscuits. It has a lower gluten ratio than most other flours, so it makes traditional southern biscuits much better than any flour I have available locally. But I am definitely paying for that quality, this is a pretty steep price for just flour, which is why I only use it for biscuits. But the biscuits are amazing, so it's worth it to me.

White Lily Unbleached Self Rising Flour, 5-lb bag So my biscuits are tiny, hard as a rock and flat. What's up with that? Well ... turns out your flour does make a difference. And, old fashioned southern biscuits love the White Lily soft winter wheat. Seems the wheat is important in the lightness of your biscuit. White Lily unbleached/self-risng flour is 100% Soft Winter Wheat. It is the low protein content that makes your biscuit, muffin, waffle, or pancake "light" and "delicate." A little pricey for five pounds at almost twelve dollars. But, I was snow bound in Wisconsin and I wanted biscuits. Amazon delivered to my front door and the result was worth it. What's that old saying, "You get what you pay for?" Well, I finally got that light, fluffy biscuit like Grandmother used to make. If you need a little help, like I did, there are some great YouTube "How To's" and turns out, biscuit dough likes everything COLD. So, I froze White Lily — we do this down south anyway to prevent weevils — used a frozen stick of butter, added my cold buttermilk then put the dough in the freezer for ten minutes. Turns out you don't knead biscuit dough. It likes a delicate touch. With a lite touch roll out your dough then fold it over. Roll and fold, roll and fold about five or six times. This is how you get that flakey layered biscuit. Who knew? I didn't use the biscuit recipe on the back of the White Lily package. Will try their recipe next time. I hope this review helps your biscuit making and you enjoy a fluffy White Lily biscuit dripping with butter or sweetened with 100% Maple Syrup or Yankee style with Sweet sorghum molasses. And if you are from the south, you know that BLT is best inside a biscuit. Happy eating! RECOMMENDED PRODUCT.

Very good

I wasn't convinced that this flour was different until I tried it. It has less gluten and less protein, but so does cake flour. One can make cake flour from all purpose by adding 2 TB of cornstarch per cup of all purpose. Of course you can also purchase cake flour at your local store. I made the biscuits with buttermilk and real butter, not lard as in the package directions. First of all, they were very crisp on the outside, and very light, fluffy, and tender on the inside. The whole biscuit was very lightweight, not like the AP biscuits I have made. Yes, they were good, but I also found the biscuits too salty, thus the 4-star rating. Was it too much salt or too much baking soda in the mix? I am going to try a little experiment by making my own cake flour and also buying a box of cake flour. I will make biscuits with both and see how they compare with the White Lily. I will also try White Lily AP and see what kind of biscuits that makes. I will update soon....

I bought this because it was rumored to be perfect for light, fluffy biscuits. And it is. Easy, convenient, and great biscuits every time. My only complaint is that it's too salty for me, but I solve this by just substituting 1/3 of the flour with regular (non-self-rising) flour, which works fine. Still rises great, and since I use WW flour for this, gives it a bit of whole grain crunch as well. Great flour. I bought some all-purpose as well once I had tried the self-rising stuff, to try with other pastry baking. Looking forward to trying it. White Lily can be really expensive at Amazon--look for it to be offered as an "add-on" item, when you can get it for about $3/5 lb bag. It is well worth that, but I've seen it as high as $7/bag when it's not an add-on, and that seems a bit extreme.

As advertised

I like it